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Originally Posted by Frank Castros

How would lowering the indexes change these qualifying results?

Daren,
The point of listing this result is to dispel the notion that lowing the indexes by a tenth across the board would be unfair to to those at the bottom of the list. Based on this example I don't think so.

Using Indy qualifying...where most people won't even enter unless they're capable of running .75 under...isn't exactly a good example. That's cherry picking the most competitive race of the year for qualifying to try to prove a point.

Go use the Columbus qualifying sheets from the past 2 seasons...or basically any divisional qualifying sheet where more of the cars that aren't as far under the index are likely to show up...and you'll find significantly more cars that aren't more than a few hundredths under the index especially in the heat of the summer.

Lowering indexes any further won't do anything to make the faster cars come back to the slower ones. It would, however, make several cars completely useless thru the summer months. In stock eliminator...where the car counts are already starting to falter a little bit...is shrinking the field of available cars for divisionals or "non-Indy" nationals really what is in the best interest of the class?